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Oxelytrum
Sign in to saveOxelytrum is a genus of carrion beetles belonging to the family Silphidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyStaphylinidae
Observations1,318
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 74
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Collections
- TAMU, CU, UD, CLEMSON UNIVERSITY ARTHROPOD COLLECTION
- Recorded in
- Nicaragua, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru
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- Oxelytrum
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Oxelytrum is a genus of carrion beetles belonging to the family Silphidae.
Species in this genus have three ridges on each elytron, without hairs on the pronotal disk. They are usually black with reddish markings and have 3-segmented antennal clubs. Most species are nocturnal and are mainly confined to South America.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oxelytrum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.